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New Who in Queue
(E! Online, 11/12/2004 3:00 PM)
By Josh Grossberg
New Who in the works? We've heard that one before.
But this time, Pete Townshend says we won't be fooled again. Maybe.
After a lot of talk and no action, the band's guitarist and creative mastermind confirmed that he and the Who's other surviving member, singer Roger Daltrey , are finally making good on their promise to record a new Who studio album that could be on track to release next spring.
In a post on his www.petetownshend.co.uk Website, Townshend dispells rumors that the untitled disc, the British rockers' first collection of new tunes since 1982's It's Hard, would be a concept album in the vein of Tommy or Quadrophenia.
Instead, Townshend reveals that he and Daltrey have been working on new tracks and they will get together next month to rehearse.
"If we move ahead from there, we may have a CD ready to release in the spring," Townshend writes.
Then again, Townshend has been talking about a new Who album since 2000, so excuse us if we're skeptical.
Townshend has tentatively titled the long-gestating project Who2, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that there are now only two remaining in the group after the deaths of original drummer Keith Moon, who succumbed to an accidental drug overdose in 1978, and bassist John Entwistle, who died of a cocaine-fueled heart attack in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2002.
Townshend did not mention whether he and Daltrey will try to salvage a bass line Entwistle recorded shortly before his death.
Once the album is wrapped, Townshend says, "we will tour with the usual band in the first half of 2005."
Daltrey and Townshend spent much of 2004 tooling around the world to mark the band's 40th anniversary and promote the Who's latest greatest hits compilation, Then and Now: 1964-2004, which featured two new cuts, "Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine."
The duo was backed by veteran session player Pino Palladino on bass and Zak Starkey , Ringo Starr 's son, on drums.
Meanwhile, Townshend, 59, is continuing work on his autobiography, Who He?. He had hoped to follow in Bob Dylan 's footsteps and first put out memoirs of his early years. But his arrest on suspicion of kiddie porn possession, which he was ultimately cleared of after getting a wrist slap by the British government, made him rethink those plans.
"My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in proper context," says Townshend. "I have had a long and lumbering life--this book will take time."
Just like that new Who album.
